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Annie Dillard, Wendell Berry, and bell hooks rebuilt my soul on the way out of fundamentalism. I went to school where Annie wrote PILGRIM for my MFA and got to hear bell hooks speak there. and now they are all gone.
September 16, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Annie Dillard, Wendell Berry, and bell hooks rebuilt my soul on the way out of fundamentalism. I went to school where Annie wrote PILGRIM for my MFA and got to hear bell hooks speak there. and now they are all gone.
someone is gonna give ed his ipad for screen time in a few hours and it is gonna be bad
September 15, 2026 at 9:12 PM
someone is gonna give ed his ipad for screen time in a few hours and it is gonna be bad
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Pretty funny that Ed Sheeran seemingly only hired Irish people and yet didn't see this coming.
September 15, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Pretty funny that Ed Sheeran seemingly only hired Irish people and yet didn't see this coming.
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can bob kraft play guitar
September 15, 2026 at 7:51 PM
can bob kraft play guitar
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I’m not complicit. Please don’t put it in the newspaper that I’m complicit.
September 15, 2026 at 5:52 PM
I’m not complicit. Please don’t put it in the newspaper that I’m complicit.
i wish i understood the kyrgyz justice system better, especially what appeal processes are like for criminal charges.
September 15, 2026 at 5:43 PM
i wish i understood the kyrgyz justice system better, especially what appeal processes are like for criminal charges.
none of these words are in the bible
Some details: Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children
www.propublica.org/article/dona...
www.propublica.org/article/dona...
Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
www.propublica.org
September 14, 2026 at 7:58 PM
none of these words are in the bible
i don't understand why critical thinking seems hard re the "leaders of frontier ai beg for regulation." the occam's razor here is that something about regulation covers their asses and their bottom line, not altruism for humanity.
September 14, 2026 at 7:27 PM
i don't understand why critical thinking seems hard re the "leaders of frontier ai beg for regulation." the occam's razor here is that something about regulation covers their asses and their bottom line, not altruism for humanity.
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i think this is the best epitaph for bin laden i have ever seen
I think it's more comforting for some people to think of OBL as some evil genius or tragic victim of imperialism rather than a bog standard delusional ideologically extremist billionaire failson who thought he could accellerationism his way to a theocratic utopia
September 11, 2026 at 6:33 PM
i think this is the best epitaph for bin laden i have ever seen
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I was unfamiliar until recently with the story of Father Mychal Judge, a gay priest who became the first recorded casualty of 9/11 while administering last rites in the lobby of the North Tower. There is an effort to canonize him, which would make him the first openly gay saint in history.
Father Mychal Judge, Gay Franciscan Killed in the North Tower, Could Be 9/11’s First Saint
The first recorded death at Ground Zero would become the first known gay person canonized a saint in the Catholic Church’s history.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
September 11, 2026 at 3:22 PM
I was unfamiliar until recently with the story of Father Mychal Judge, a gay priest who became the first recorded casualty of 9/11 while administering last rites in the lobby of the North Tower. There is an effort to canonize him, which would make him the first openly gay saint in history.
I rarely share my day job here but if you want to come to our fall fundraiser and support a DC org that's making it possible for women to rebuild their lives after homelessness, we're selling tickets here! Federal funding for housing orgs is uncertain, so every donation helps.
onecau.se/mooh26
onecau.se/mooh26
Moving Out of Homelessness 2026
A link to Moving Out of Homelessness 2026's event page.
onecau.se
September 9, 2026 at 8:54 PM
I rarely share my day job here but if you want to come to our fall fundraiser and support a DC org that's making it possible for women to rebuild their lives after homelessness, we're selling tickets here! Federal funding for housing orgs is uncertain, so every donation helps.
onecau.se/mooh26
onecau.se/mooh26
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The reason AI might kill everyone is not because it will be super-intelligent, but because it will be extremely fallible, but we will give it control over stuff that can kill us anyway. A dog is not super-intelligent, but it will kill you if you let it drive you to work.
ANTHROPIC EXEC: “.. I personally think it is >10% within the next decade.”
September 9, 2026 at 3:12 PM
The reason AI might kill everyone is not because it will be super-intelligent, but because it will be extremely fallible, but we will give it control over stuff that can kill us anyway. A dog is not super-intelligent, but it will kill you if you let it drive you to work.
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Hi, this is your seasonal reminder to back up your computer, your cell phone, your voice recorder, your memory cards, anything you think is important. Make multiple copies, because hard drives fail and are very expensive right now. Sometimes you drop you phone into a lake. Do it sooner than later.
September 1, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Hi, this is your seasonal reminder to back up your computer, your cell phone, your voice recorder, your memory cards, anything you think is important. Make multiple copies, because hard drives fail and are very expensive right now. Sometimes you drop you phone into a lake. Do it sooner than later.
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For fellow Virginians: I believe the Library of Virginia has free remote access. You just have to have a Library of Virginia card… which you can sign up for instantly for free with your driver’s license number.
Databases & eBooks
lva-virginia.libguides.com
August 31, 2026 at 11:36 PM
For fellow Virginians: I believe the Library of Virginia has free remote access. You just have to have a Library of Virginia card… which you can sign up for instantly for free with your driver’s license number.
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This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
September 1, 2026 at 5:08 PM
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
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Questionnaire by Wendell Berry
September 1, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Questionnaire by Wendell Berry
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“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts” - Wendell Berry
September 1, 2026 at 1:37 AM
“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts” - Wendell Berry
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"who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief" is just ... man, bullseye
September 1, 2026 at 4:14 AM
"who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief" is just ... man, bullseye
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Wendell Berry was a giant. He understood that ecological destruction and capitalism’s worship of limitless scale were not separate problems, but were a single moral wound. He built a moral universe in which land, work, love, and community all belong to one another. As we belong to one another.
September 1, 2026 at 3:42 AM
Wendell Berry was a giant. He understood that ecological destruction and capitalism’s worship of limitless scale were not separate problems, but were a single moral wound. He built a moral universe in which land, work, love, and community all belong to one another. As we belong to one another.
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“I believed, and I was as sure as if she had told me, that when she sat alone that way, hurting or not, she was praying. Though I never heard her pray aloud in my life, it seems to me now that I can reproduce in my mind the very voice of her prayers.”
RIP Wendell Berry
RIP Wendell Berry
September 1, 2026 at 3:41 AM
“I believed, and I was as sure as if she had told me, that when she sat alone that way, hurting or not, she was praying. Though I never heard her pray aloud in my life, it seems to me now that I can reproduce in my mind the very voice of her prayers.”
RIP Wendell Berry
RIP Wendell Berry
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Wendell Berry is gone after a long life. I dare you to read or listen to this and not be overwhelmed by something
The Peace of Wild Things
A poem by Wendell Berry.
onbeing.org
September 1, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Wendell Berry is gone after a long life. I dare you to read or listen to this and not be overwhelmed by something
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Breathe with unconditional breath
the unconditioned air.
Shun electric wire.
Communicate slowly. Live
a three-dimensioned life;
stay away from screens.
Stay away from anything
that obscures the place it is in.
There are no unsacred places;
there are only sacred places
and desecrated places.
the unconditioned air.
Shun electric wire.
Communicate slowly. Live
a three-dimensioned life;
stay away from screens.
Stay away from anything
that obscures the place it is in.
There are no unsacred places;
there are only sacred places
and desecrated places.
“How to Be a Poet” — written and read by Wendell Berry
YouTube video by The On Being Project
www.youtube.com
September 1, 2026 at 3:27 AM
Breathe with unconditional breath
the unconditioned air.
Shun electric wire.
Communicate slowly. Live
a three-dimensioned life;
stay away from screens.
Stay away from anything
that obscures the place it is in.
There are no unsacred places;
there are only sacred places
and desecrated places.
the unconditioned air.
Shun electric wire.
Communicate slowly. Live
a three-dimensioned life;
stay away from screens.
Stay away from anything
that obscures the place it is in.
There are no unsacred places;
there are only sacred places
and desecrated places.
Goddamn it Wendell Berry too?
September 1, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Goddamn it Wendell Berry too?